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I cant even imagine working on the same project for 35 years... let alone how different computing might be after that time.


They rolled with it, they made their own source control system, as evidenced by the page that was linked.


At the same time, given the quality of the code base and the test coverage, I can imagine supporting a code base that I believe in and am extremely proud of, and that is extremely popular and widely used, for 35 years.


We have production IBM iSeries code (AS/400) that has (c) 1977 in a bunch of places. The platform lives...




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